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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. THE SKIES. I.INK. M'TK 39 1 Compare Milton's: ' And thou shalt be our star of Arcady, Or Tyrian Cynosure.'?Gamus. ' Star of Arcady' is an allusion to a different legend. in which Callisto, an Arcadian maid, takes the place of Helice. As a means of orientation both the greater and the lesser Bear have been superseded in modern times by the magnetic needle. 62 2 The elevation of the pole above the horizon of any spectator is equal in number of degrees to the latitude of the spectator; for instance, Athens being in latitude 38. the elevation of the pole above the horizon of Athens is 38. The Dragon's head, therefore, being only 38 from the pole, to a spectator at Athens is circumpolar, ije. never sets. The centre of the Dragon is in the Arctic circle, 23i from the pole: that is, just as far from the pole as the tropic of Cancer is from the equator. It is therefore in the zenith of a spectator to whom, at the summer solst ice, the sun never sets. If Aratus had not named the Head of the Dragon, we might have supposed he alluded to this phenomenon and have translated: ' That Dragon form is vertical o'er climes That join the tips of evening and dawn.' I.TNE. NOTE. i!4 3 Now called Hercules. 118 4 Why echoing ? A line of Cowper may suggest the answer: ' The fall of waters, and the song of birds, And hills that echo with the distant herds'.?Retirement. 137 5 Called by later astronomers Coma Berenices. The group beneath the tail, or, line 144, by the hind knees, of Ursa Major, seems to be Canes Venatici; that by her fore-paws, Lynx; that by her hind-paws, Leo Minor. 161 6 Beginners still find Capella by producing a line through Delta and Alpha of Ursa Major. 172 7 Hesiod gives their names: ' Nymphs like the Graces, Phaesyle, and ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217283496
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217283497
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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